Concerts

Dallas’ electronic darlings Ishi won’t be dropping their second LP, Digital Wounds, until spring 2013, although they’re sure to play some new material from it atTrees. Check out the album’s single, “Disco Queen,” for a taste…

Don’t go broke this New Year’s Eve. For just $10, you can cover all your tribute band bases and ring in the new year with sexy Cramps cover band The Gorehounds, Hall & Oates tribute act The Rich Girls and retro-rock lover DJ Tigerbee…

If you find yourself in Fort Worth, celebrate by checking out lo-fi dream-pop band Skeleton Coast, gritty rock ‘n’ roll group The Longshots and famed multi-instrumentalist Daniel Hart. DJs Databass and Ronnie Heart will be spinning to a full bar, provided by The Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge. Twelve…

Electro-pop band Starparty will be busting out the laser lights and glow sticks at Hailey’s in Denton with psychedelic pop band H.I. Jr. If you’re in the mood to dance, this will be the spot to be. For just $5 you can expect a free Champagne toast at midnight, a…

Everyone’s celebrating the novelty of the impending end of the Mayan calendar tonight with very tongue-in-cheek “apocalypse” parties, and this is one of the better lineups to be watching when a fireball turns us all into screaming skulls. (Or whatever is supposed to happen; I fell asleep halfway through that…

Texas’ cinematic rock group This Will Destroy You will headline a show at Granada with local stoners True Widow and dark folk ensemble The Angelus. The San Marcos foursome has played several gigs in Texas after the release of their sophomore LP, Tunnel Blanket, which digs into the darkest and…

Since 1961, Preservation Hall has been a cultural hub for the brass band jazz sound of New Orleans, and since its inception in the French Quarter, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band has had a steady roster of rotating members. On December 21, the legendary ensemble will make the Texas stop…

Zhora headlines this electronically informed night, and hopefully we’ll be hearing some new songs from a potential full-length. We sure liked the mellow sounds of their four-song EP this year. Fort Worth’s Ice Eater add some mood to the mix, a nice tandem with Austin’s dark stars, Missions…

WAAS Gallery is extending its reach from the art side of things to present this collaborative music event. Brain Gang’s Bobby Sessions and Denton’s Jenny Robinson, two emcees on our “Five Local Rappers to Watch in 2013” list, will pair up with Ynfynyt Scroll and Air DeeJay from Dallas’ Track…

We decided to check back in with some of the people we interviewed this year for My First Show, and ask about favorite concerts, records, and most-wanted Christmas gifts. Bad Design’s Steven Altuna takes the cake for best answer for a Christmas wish. What was the best show you saw…

Turbo Fruits put on a very memorable set a few months ago at Bryan Street Tavern, and the Nashville group returns tomorrow with PVC Street Gang, Sealion and Savage and the Big Beat at Dada. Frontman Jonas Stein remembers that show, along with other musical firsts. Was guitar the first…

Austin multi-instrumentalist Ralph White has been playing shows in Fort Worth on a pretty regular basis, and he does so again this Thursday at Fred’s Texas Cafe, but follows it up with a Dallas gig at Smoke & Mirrors Gallery, with D.H. Phillips and Warren Jackson Hearne. White is still…

Spune Productions offers at least six reasons to forget about the commercialism of the holidays and go out to see a show. Biographies, a band that seemingly came out of nowhere in the last three months and have been filling every Denton venue they play, will be featured early in…

Formed in 2009, when Woods bassist Kevin Morby and Vivian Girls guitarist Cassie Ramone met at a party in Brooklyn, The Babies started making noise in 2010 with “Meet Me in the City,” a gloriously energetic trip that features some of the best dueling vocals this side of a Lee…

Fort Worth jam-punk-folk collective KatsuK is fronted by the Ian Anderson-esque Daniel KatsuK, former frontman of the indispensable Spoonfed Tribe back in the late ’90s and early aughts. Shortly after the Tribe disbanded, he moved to Colorado, but returned to North Texas in 2008 to form his critically acclaimed new…

More than a dozen acts are slated to play this annual benefit show, and we hope they’ve got another stage going for the night, or else it’s going to be real intimate inside Libertine. Nevertheless, it will be a drunken good time, for a good cause. The O’s, Ryan Thomas…

Lamb of God, Hellyeah, In Flames, Sylosis Palladium Ballroom Friday, December 7 Christmas came early this year, as Sylosis, Hellyeah, In Flames and Lamb of God imploded eardrums on Friday night. British band Sylosis started the show, offering a modernized version of old-school Bay Area thrash metal, informed by West…

As part of KXT 91.7’s holiday concert series, the radio station is hosting three shows in December, one of which features folk quintet Milo Greene and local folk-pop band Air Review. Los Angeles’ Milo Greene released their debut self-titled album earlier this year, and were listed as one of Esquire’s…

Roughly two years of buzz later, Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, also known as Odd Future, are finally making a non-SXSW Texas appearance. Collective members Frank Ocean and Earl Sweatshirt have certainly enjoyed continued success, with co-founder Tyler, the Creator representing on plenty of guest verses and generally…

I’ve been hard on Kozelek’s past band, Red House Painters, mainly because in college they radiated an air of preciousness I couldn’t accept. As I’ve gotten older and softer, though, Kozelek’s music, namely Sun Kil Moon, has grown on me. The spring of 2013 sees the release of Perils From…

As the fall semester comes to an end in Denton, Gutterth and Pan Ector once again host the Dead Week Print Show at Rubber Gloves and the Meme Gallery, a tandem print art/music event featuring the electronically assisted sounds of Zorch, New Fumes, Summer of Glaciers, Def Rain and Ulnae,…

Double Wide’s been pulling double duty since the closing of LaGrange a few weeks ago, and taking on their orphaned shows. This isn’t one of them, but it’s a solid weekend of locals, starting Friday night with Nervous Curtains, Blackstone Rangers and Skeleton Coast. Saturday sees that cad George Quartz,…